American Cancer Society: Young Women Twice As Likely To Get A Cancer Diagnosis Than Young Men

(Washington, DC) – Young women are getting cancer diagnoses at almost twice the rate of young men. A new report from the American Cancer Society shows a change in diagnoses’ demographics. They’re moving from older to younger adults and from men to women. Middle-aged women now have a slightly higher cancer risk than men their age. Breast and thyroid cancers in women are driving that trend.

The lead author said those two cancers account for nearly half of all cancer diagnoses in women under 50.